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Re: apt PARALLELISM



Hi Ivan!

You wrote:

> 
>     As far as I read the proposal, it is about downloading _different_
>     files from different mirrors - if you have 25 packages to get for your
>     'apt-get update' operation, download 5 packages from each of 5
>     different servers, with one connection to each server active at a
>     time.
> 
> That is what I mean ...  

But what would you gain from that?  In my experience, the mirrors are
fast enough to saturate anything but the fastest (100Mb) links.  

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